He swam 82 laps or 4,100 yards in his two hour time slot. In fact he was the only one in the pool for his last 30 minutes or so. He was the only one in his group to swim the entire two hours.
They all took a break to do some tie dying and he really enjoyed that as well.
Monday was supposed to be his last day of practice until after spring break but he wanted to swim with the other groups as well, the older kids. So we returned on Tuesday.
On Tuesday he took it a bit easier, he did not swim the entire two hours and did another tie dye shirt. He still managed to swim 24 laps for another 1200 yards.
Finally on Wednesday he set a goal to swim the maximum allowed of 5000 yards in the two hour time limit. He started off strong but quickly noticed that the high schoolers he was swimming with were playing around ALOT. So obviously he wanted in on the fun. As all this was sourly because he wanted to I was not pushing him. I asked if he still wanted to meet his goal of 5000 yards and he said he did. I then explained to him how many yards he would have to do every 30 minutes and he immediately took off swimming again.
I agreed that after 2000 yards he could swim with flippers and that energized him.
After another break for tie dying he jumped in and swam his little heart out. In fact he bettered his performance from Monday by swimming 4,700 yards.
Although for the Swim-A-Thon results he can only count Mondays yards he still swam more than anyone else in the team in one two hour slot.
Way to go Roo!!!
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